Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at default file handling in VisualWorks (and ObjectStudio). If you use the ExternalWebBrowser (badly named) class, you don't need to keep track of executable locations. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at launching external applications from within VA Smalltalk - outside of the Composition Editor If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Time to register for STIC 2013 - Early Bird registration is available for 10 more days (expiring on Easter Sunday). Get it done now - we have a great lineup of speakers, and we'll be getting information out about that soon.

I love the way some of the tech pundits have gone on and on about Google Reader - take Om Malik:

I spent about seven years of my online life on that service. I sent feedback, used it to annotate information and they killed it like a butcher slaughters a chicken. No conversation — dead. The service that drives more traffic than Google+ was sacrificed because it didn’t meet some vague corporate goals; users — many of them life long — be damned.

So.... remind me again - exactly how much did you pay for that service you devoted 7 years to? Nothing, right? You knew all along that it was going to live so long as it met Google's ad driven revenue model, right?

Companies don't push out products out of the goodness of their hearts. These things cost money to run, and that money comes from one of two places - ad revenue, or license revenue. We know that Google doesn't make money via licensing (at least not for their web facing products) - so that leaves ads. If a service isn't good at ad conversions, then it's not something Google can maintain. For the mountains of ink spilled by people like Malik, this apparently simple fact is... just beyond their grasp.

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some variations on calling external applications from VA Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Welcome to episode 120 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about using relational databases with Smalltalk, and how projects sometimes hit bumps in the road with the combination.

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

Welcome to episode 120 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week Dave and I talked about using relational databases with Smalltalk, and how projects sometimes hit bumps in the road with the combination.

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the fact that ObjectStudio is hosted within VisualWorks - which makes it possible to "step outside" of ObjectStudio, something that can be quite convenient. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly. If you need the video in a Windows Media format, then download that here.